So this past weekend I am changing my oil on my bike (first bike, first time changing oil) and well i got the super duper repair manual and it talks about checking the oil level via the viewer windows, well i spent a good 45 mins looking for this "viewer window" and even got a 2nd pair of eyes to come out and "try" to find it. Well finally I pulled off the left faring to get the owners manual out (yup to get to my storage you have to pull a faring off) and well it says that the bike only has a dip stick and to use that to measure oil level. Luckly the bike takes 3.9 liters of oil which is pretty easy to figure out but geeeezzz, just venting and fyi-ing to other F3 peeps, but also mine being a 98 seems to place it in some limbo point in the CBR600 crossover to the F4 i think....
PS I still love my bike....